native2ascii(1)native2ascii(1)NAMEnative2ascii - Native-to-ASCII Converter
Converts a file with native-encoded characters (characters which are
non-Latin 1 and non-Unicode) to one with Unicode-encoded characters.
SYNOPSISnative2ascii [options] [inputfile [outputfile]]
DESCRIPTION
The Java compiler and other Java tools can only process files which
contain Latin-1 and/or Unicode-encoded (\udddd notation) characters.
native2ascii converts files which contain other character encodings
into files containing Latin-1 and/or Unicode-encoded charaters.
If outputfile is omitted, standard output is used for output. If, in
addition, inputfile is omitted, standard input is used for input.
OPTIONS-reverse
Perform the reverse operation: convert a file with Latin-1 and/or
Unicode encoded characters to one with native-encoded characters.
-encoding encoding_name
Specify the encoding name which is used by the conversion procedure.
The default encoding is taken from System property file.encoding.
The encoding_name string must be taken from the first column of the
table of supported encodings in the Supported Encodings @
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/intl/encod‐
ing.doc.html document.
-Joption
Pass option to the Java virtual machine, where option is one of the
options described on the reference page for the java application
launcher. For example, -J-Xms48m sets the startup memory to 48
megabytes.
05 Aug 2006 native2ascii(1)
